>> In a slight change of this question (since I have no data to
>> currently test this with, as my ISP is using too old a
>> version of mysql), does anyone know what something like
>> this would do?
>>
>> SELECT * FROM theTable ORDER BY RAND(), date LIMIT 5;
>
> Exactly the same as SELECT * FROM theTable ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 5; would
> do, since RAND() returns a different value for each row, and the date column
> would only be sorted in the event of duplicates in the previous order
> expression.
Gotcha. So is there any way to return 5 (some number) rows, chosen
randomly, and then sort them by date (or name or whatever). So the final
result is a list, sorted by date, but of rows chosen randomly from the
table.
I assume this would be possible with some kind of nested SELECT statement,
but last I checked, mysql couldn't do this.
Thanks,
Chris
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